Reviews tagging 'Terminal illness'

The Troop by Nick Cutter

45 reviews

ghostblush's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Death, Gore, Terminal illness, Violence, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Vomit, Medical content, Murder, and Fire/Fire injury

amsswim's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

If you are into horror I highly recommend this one. Atmosphere and story were there for me even listening to the audiobook, gave me chills a few times lol. Def go through the trigger warnings though as needed, the descriptions were detailed. Alternating POVs were really good here too.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Child death, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Terminal illness, Torture, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Addiction, Cancer, Vomit, Cannibalism, and Abandonment

allhailursula's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

This was something.

I think this really does have a few downright skin crawling and unsettling scenes, and by the end, i felt a lot of pity for the characters put in front of us. 

I am on the fence when it comes to horror authors writing gross and gratuitous scenes,not for plot purposes but just because the writer can. 
There was the once scene specifically in Shelley's POV that was particularly grotesque, and when reading  felt almost as if the author was trying to beat it over the head and say, "Look at me! Aren't i a great author!" 

I had more than one moment when i thought the author himself was creepy. Im not sure if he meant to do that, but there were some weird choices, such as legnthy passages about the way these young boys smelled in  great detail borderlining fantasy or the very descriptive moments of a young teenage boys erection which was inappropriate  at best. Im of the opinion that fantasizing and writing in that great detail about children is almost never appropriate or needed to further the story. Especially when the second offense occurs more than once.

It wasn't bad i just really had some icks with this one.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Bullying, Child death, Confinement, Death, Gore, Self harm, Terminal illness, Blood, Excrement, and Cannibalism

hydratingtoner's review against another edition

challenging dark sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Death, Fatphobia, Gore, Self harm, Terminal illness, Torture, Violence, Vomit, Medical content, Stalking, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

clarke's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Diverse cast of characters? No

4.5

Shelley deserved a worse death

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Death, Eating disorder, Gore, Self harm, Terminal illness, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Murder, and Fire/Fire injury

randanopterix's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

This book is an absolute fucking nightmare, I mean this in the best way possible. 
Not for even the remotely faint of heart, I usually have a strong stomach for media like this but event I had to avoid the book for a couple of days when my real life got stressful. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Body shaming, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Self harm, Suicide, Terminal illness, Torture, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Cannibalism, Medical trauma, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Bullying, Confinement, Cursing, Fatphobia, Miscarriage, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Forced institutionalization, Excrement, Vomit, Kidnapping, Grief, Abortion, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, and Dysphoria

maddireads13's review against another edition

dark mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Self harm, Terminal illness, Torture, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

kristi_m's review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

This book is hard to describe... but I'll lay it out. It's gross. The descriptions are graphic and utterly disgusting. However, it's a really good read if you're able to stomach it. Storyline grows at a decent pace with some real unexpected reveals in some of the characters development. I picked this book up assuming it was gonna be like a basic zombie style book or something. But it wasn't! No zombies... but

spoiler alert and trigger warning for anyone who has issues with parasites and tape worms

I rated it so high because a book has never grossed me out and intrigued at the same time as much as this book did. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Gore, Terminal illness, Murder, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

emmalizzz's review against another edition

challenging dark sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Death, Gore, Terminal illness, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Abandonment

Minor: Bullying

gnorris29's review against another edition

dark emotional tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.5

I read this book originally because I wanted to read something that would scare me…this book delivered. It was tough to get through some sections of the book because it was so graphic and I personally can’t stomach or stand animal cruelty. I really liked that the science behind the plot was accurate, that it was based in Canada, and the scary scenes that did not involve animal cruelty. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child death, Gore, Terminal illness, Torture, Blood, and Abandonment